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Physical Review A

Higher-order squeezing in nondegenerate four-wave mixing

Nadeem A. Ansari, Muhammad Suhail Zubairy

Published Aug 1, 1991• 9 citations
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Abstract

Higher-order squeezing in nondegenerate four-wave mixing is evaluated by using the steady-state solution of the Fokker-Planck equation in the Q representation. It is shown that under suitable conditions the amount of squeezing increases with the order of squeezing.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.44.2214

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